The Alleyman returns with THREE brand new decks as one-time printings: the Alleyway Tarot, Oracle of Secrets, and Oracle of Play.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
What Next? | Failed Charge? | Second Wave
12 months ago
– Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 06:51:08 PM
Hello!
First, just a reminder that if you had shipping charged on your order, it's already being packed and labeled, and it is too late to change your shipping address. We can't make exceptions. Please set up mail fowarding if possible, set something up with the people in your old address, or be prepared to re-pay shipping if it is sent back to us.
If you HAVEN'T had shipping applied or charged on your order, you can still update your address because you'll be in wave 2 of shipping. Just go into Backerkit and adjust it, or ask Backerkit support if you need help.
Failed Charges?
On Friday, I charged shipping for everyone who had a shipping amount on their order. For people who had their card fail for any reason, we will try again this Friday. I received around 50 emails over the weekend of people panicking and reaching out about their card failing. Sorry for the silence, but I don't work on weekends. We will re-attempt then, so be prepared and all. :)
Never Did Survey?
For people who didn't get shipping amounts on their pledges, it's likely because you didn't fill out your survey. I regularly send reminder emails about your survey, including right this moment. Please check spam filters or promotion filters for those, or go to BackerKit Pledge Manager for The Alleyway Oracles to get it re-sent your way. If you don't feel like you're finding your survey and never did it/didn't just get charged shipping, reach out to me at [email protected] or to Backerkit Support for help.
When Will the Second Wave Go Out?
For anyone who got their surveys done after the March 1st/7th deadline (I kept making exceptions), once we get the first wave of items packed and moving, we will then have 30 days for backers to get their orders, surveys complete, and shipping added to their pledge and charged. This will be an ongoing process the full 30 days, and means the second wave of pledges will go out sporadically during that time, and a little after as we process people who get their stuff in during the final moments.
Once that 30 day period is finished though, this campaign will be put to bed and all other pledges will be forfeit. That just means if you never did your survey, now is the time to do it.
The Second Wave will not start getting shipping added to it, charged, or be packed until the first wave of items is out the door. At the moment, that's likely to be start of April or thereabouts. So hold tight if you missed the deadlines, we'll get started on your orders in April.
Alright friends, that's all for now! Talk again soon when I can share my package of goodies, and not too much longer after that, you'll all be able to do the same! : )
Thanks!
7DA
Shipping Charges Added to Backerkit! | VAT+Taxes ARE part of the charge | Will Charge the Shipping Friday!
12 months ago
– Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 04:53:30 PM
Hello Alleyfolk!
Shipping charges have now been added to your surveys over on Backerkit. As noted in the previous update, I will be charging these on Friday.
I was not at home today when I found out I had to combine VAT/taxes with the shipping, so I wasn't able to let you all know before they went out that the price being shown includes taxes and VAT, or anything fees your country may charge for shipping. So yes, especially for my Australia and Europe people, the charge includes fees, taxes, VAT, etc.
Shipping Totals Seem Off?
First, do want to note that you are only being charged the new shipping price. Some people are a bit confused about the total on Backerkit, and mistakenly seeing what they've already paid (in parentheses above the charge) and thinking they now owe that much as well.
I will respond to all the emails I've received about re-checking prices tomorrow, but we made the charges based on your orders package, the cost of the shipping, plus the money for picking and packing your package, which was a few dollars or so, based on how many items were in your order. So I can generally assure you it is indeed correct! But I will check tomorrow with fringe cases. We can make mistakes, so it's worth checking if you're unsure, but generally speaking we are charging what it costs to ship, plus just a dollar or two to pick and pack/packing materials.
Addresses Hard Locked
It is also too late at this point to change your address. Our original lock date was March 1st, I put out an update in the first week of March to let people know it was now locking a few days late, and in the last update did note that we will reach the end of the time that I can make exceptions. That time is now!
For people who already got me their email today about changing shipping, I will honor that tomorrow and send it to the fulfillment team. But that's all for now.
That means you will need to put mail forwarding in place in April into May if you do move or didn't get your address in on time. We will honor re-shipping if packages return to us, but you will have to pay for the reshipping if it is being reshipped because you moved and/or didn't get us an updated address. Of course, if we make a mistake, we'll take care of it on our dime though.
Also, I've had a number of people reaching out to me about their cards being out of date, and wanting to get me updated card information. You cannot give me your credit card information. Please update them with the websites that are charging you, Kickstarter and Backerkit. Log on to those sites and update your payment method with them. Thanks!
That's all for today! Talk again soon when charges are made, when packages start moving out, and when I get my goodies package featuring all the amazing items!!
7DA
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Orders Locked! | Shipping Costs Next Week | Alleyman Pins!
about 1 year ago
– Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 05:11:55 PM
As of now, 6pm MST, orders and addresses are locked.
If you didn't update your address or get the items you wanted in time, please reach out immediately to [email protected]. I will help who I can, as long as I can, but there will be an absolute point where I can't even assist any longer, even if it means we ship to the wrong address! Be sure to set up mail forwarding if that's the case.
If we have to re-ship due to you not getting the correct address in on time, it will be on your dime. Apologies for that hard line, but the money has to come from somewhere, and I have given fair notice. Thank you for your understanding.
And reminder that we are packing orders this month and sending them overseas to then be distributed in the US and Canada. This means US/Canada packages will be packed and labeled now and then go on a boat for a few weeks and then warehouse to THEN go in the mail, so we needed the address now and can't change it between now and the day it goes in the mail, as they are already pre-labeled in China. All international orders will be going out directly from China after the US orders are on the boat, so likely many Asian orders will arrive first, then European, African, and South American should be arriving around the time US and Canadian orders are going out. Weirdly in the past it seemed India and Mexico were some of the last to get their items. Distance and postage difficulties, perhaps? But we should see packages arriving to people in April. For the US, likely the latter half of April, first week of May at the latest from the schedule I last saw.
How To Check Your Survey
If you haven't yet filled out your survey at all, you can still get it done any time in the next 30-45 days or so. I'll let you all know when the timer begins, as it will be when the first wave of items and orders are shipped. Getting it in now will be too late to go in the initial batch of shipments though, so you will go out after April, time to be determined.
My contact with New Titan unfortunately had his power go out, so he's getting me the shipping costs shortly still. I will be reaching out early next week for when that's all assigned with Backerkit's help, and again, we will be charging it next Friday.
From The Alley: Enamel Pins!
And as noted on the Alleyman's Tarot campaign today, on the 28th I'll be launching a very small campaign during Backerkit's Pintopia project for a set of Alleyman enamel pins! It features the Alleyman as taken from the photos done by Nicholas Bruno for the original Alleyman's project, and three of the Deaths from the original deck-- The Blood Death, The Fire Death, and The Dancing Death! If it does particularly well, we can unlock the Alleyway Oracle Alleyman design from my photos with KP11, and another set of 3 Tarot Cards!
You can signup to be notified here, and check out our partner project for a set of Hunted enamel pins. As part of Pintopia, we are partnered with the Hunted project, and if you back the both of our projects, you'll get an exclusive collaborative pin from each of us! Hers is a gorgeous wolf in the tarot frame I made, and mine is an Alleyman falling out of the tarot frame, struck through by the glow in the dark blue arrows!
This one I'm expecting no more than 100 or so people, and I'll be fulfilling it from my apartment, so it should be quite small! Hope to see some of you there. : )
7DA
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A Few Days Behind | Shipping Rates Going Live | Addresses Lock Tomorrow!
about 1 year ago
– Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 09:48:31 AM
Hello alleyfolk!
First of all, my apologies for not updating sooner. I believed I would have shipping rates in hand around the 27th, but that didn't happen. I pinged New Titan and awaited their response. I hate to put out updates for y'all that don't have any real information, so I usually opt to wait until I have info in hand. And now I do!
A Few Days Behind
New Titan was having a real hard time figuring out how to get the packages together between the three decks, alleyman extras, oracle dice extras. All that is quite a bit! But they have figured it out, and are getting me the shipping rates today.
This means we are locking addresses and orders for good TOMORROW.
So if you need to update your address, or add a final item, you have today alone. Reach out to backerkit support asap, or hit me up at [email protected] if you need other items.
Lost Your Survey, Need it to Update Address?
Click through there, put in your kickstarter-related email, and get it taken care of! Especially if you worry you never did your survey at all. There are still 325 people who haven't filled out their surveys, so it's now or never. If you aren't sure if you did your survey, follow the above link, or click here. You can check this way. Please only email me to ask if you did yours if you can't get the survey to send that way. Thanks!
Shipping Rates
As I get those rates today, then ping them over to Backerkit to input to your orders, it will take time. Probably a day or two. That means I will be updating again very shortly to let you know first that orders and addresses are locked for good, then once more the next day or two to let you know shipping rates have gone in. I will be looking to actually charge the shipping rates NEXT FRIDAY THE 15th. So you have a week or so of wiggle room from today/tomorrow.
A reminder that you do have to pay your shipping to get your items, and we are very far past the refund window. So bear that in mind.
Also a reminder that the Wooden Boxes will ship separately on our dime, you won't be charged extra for the package being split. I will also be shipping the Hit Point Press's Animated Tarot separately. It's a big impressive box and will make it hard to get things together in a box otherwise, so I'm going to organize with them now to get those Fablemaker's items either sent from them or to me and then out to y'all.
The Normal Tarot Launched!
On Tuesday, the Normal Tarot's third edition launched over on Backerkit! And to be honest, it was a bumpy launch. The first hour, Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc) was down, so we couldn't run ads, we couldn't post to the Alley facebook fanpage or our Facebook page, our Instagram, etc. Then, just 45 minutes in, as Meta came back online, Backerkit itself went down as Brandon Sanderson's new record breaking project went live for nearly 2 hours.
We still cruised on past our funding goal in 9 hours handily, but we lost a ton of momentum having the site go down. So if you have time, the funds, and interest, please give the Normal Tarot a look! We're putting out not just the brand new third edition by Ezra Kimbell (who designed the amazing packaging for the Alleyway Oracles decks and guidebook covers!!), but we're also reprinting the first three versions of the deck, both the original black and white one, and the 2nd edition decks in Gold and Silver foil!
I also know some of you would prefer to wait until you've received your Alleyway Oracles decks before you'd take a look, and that is plenty fair! We'll see you on the later pre-order page for the Normal Tarot in late April and May.
Alright friends, talk tomorrow, and a few days after!
7DA
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Pieces of the Alley, Alive! | Upcoming Shipping | Next Publishing Goblin Projects!
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 04:35:35 PM
Hello alley friends!
Pieces of the Alley, Alive!
First off, I have been waiting till today because I knew I was getting some items today! So let's take a look at some of the goodies that came in.
The three bags, and (most) of their items! The Arcade bag (Tulsa) is missing its alleyman miniature and dice, as those weren't ready when this set of items came over to the US. But as I understand those are in production. But you can see the bag itself and its tokens, and they look great! The First & Half Bank (Des Moines Findings) zipper bag is fantastic, and has its tarot cloth, moth charm, fake teeth, and three unique coins all together. They're super great quality, and I'm excited about it. Then the Alley Movers jersey string bag (Longview) includes its purple candle, random charms, and the 4 prong key on chain!
Here's a closer look at the tokens, coins, and the key! This is the first time I think I've shared the key at all, so that's pretty fun. Check the video for some more angles on the trinkets, but they are awesome!
If you didn't get any of the add-on bags, now is a good time to go check that out in the backerkit survey, ask me (by email at [email protected] or message here on KS) to unlock your survey. We are locking for sure March 1st!
Upcoming Shipping
I was told 4 days ago that more accurate shipping and fulfillment rates were going to be ready shortly. I think that should mean we'll be assigning shipping rates to people's orders next week. I will of course put out an update when that's going live to let people know and give final timeline for locking and shipping, as well as how the process of paying will work. But as of start of this month I was told we're still on track for April shipping/arriving dates.
Which is just to say, this is all about to be totally real and in our hands in just 2 months! (I was told start of month that decks were already being made! It's so real and exciting)
Next Publishing Goblin Projects
I wanted to wait to launch the Normal Tarot until April, when at least the Alleyway Oracles will be shipping, or partially arrived. Unfortunately, finances dictate the pace of business, and if I want to keep paying my contracted helpers on various upcoming projects, we have to launch now. While New Titan will be our manufacturer and fulfilment for the Normal Tarot, we won't actually be going to manufacturing on that until later this year, so the slight campaign overlap won't delay the Alleyway Oracles in any way whatsoever. I appreciate your understanding on that.
The Return of the Normal Tarot will see the 3rd edition in full color, with beautiful work from Ezra Kimbell, the artist on the Oracle Dice's cover and Lords cards! We are also re-printing the 2nd edition in Gold and Silver foils, and the original edition in black and white.
It'll be a very small project that I will be fulfilling myself from home. I've been tinkering with the designs, but they're going to be very cool little pins! You can see some of what I'm working on below. There will be little 3-"card" sets, a larger alleyman pin or two, and a Wandering Oracle pin from this project.
So a busy March for sure! And of course, the project that has eaten all my money for 3 years now, Confluence, is going live October at the end of the year. But that's a roleplaying game, so I'll bother people on games projects about that one. : )
